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The General · Beat 132 · permalink

Railroad tracks

39:14–39:28 Released 1927; registered 1926

Machine annotation by Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct, cut beats-0.2, prompt beats-0.2. Machine checks passed. 1 quote checked against the transcript; no visible events claimed. Not human-reviewed. Observations and transcript may still be wrong.

Frame at 39:2139:21

Play from 39:14 on the Internet Archive This passage on the film's page

Evidence and details

Starts here: pause in speech. Sequence 49 · shots 309–309. Observations cite a frame (frame:n) or a time (t:m:ss); frames are the sampled ones above.

Place
railroad tracks (other, exterior) evidence: frame:1
Seen
railroad tracks [frame:1], hilly terrain [frame:1]
Interpretation
Model opinion, not evidence: mood: solemn or conclusive; themes: journey, finality; style notes: static wide shot, sepia-toned, high-angle view down the tracks

A single frame shows a view looking down a set of railroad tracks running through a barren, hilly landscape. The only spoken word in the beat is 'Amen' at 39:19.

“Amen.” 39:19 automatic transcript, may be wrong

The record

Copyright term expired The copyright term began before 1931. Under US law every such term, renewed or not, ended before 2026-01-01. Evidence dossier. The finding concerns the US copyright record for the film; it is not clearance for any use, and this page's annotation is machine output.

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Frame from The General (1927) at 39:21 (passage 39:14–39:28); US record: Copyright term expired

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